US Mint Website Is Having Problems

While trying to look up mintage totals at the US Mint website, I continually receive the message that an internal error occurred along with a more detailed statement that I will not repeat here.

I have not tried to contact the US Mint about this because it is the end of the business day. Thus, I do not know if this will be corrected before the weekend.

Those of us who understand the message returned by the web server software has been given a tremendous amount of intelligence about the US Mint’s website. While I will not discuss what the message means, I will say that I am distressed that the US Mint did not perform proper due diligence on their website as they are required by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

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